Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Basic research

Research Group:
Pharmacology of GABA(A) receptor subtypes

Mikko Uusi-Oukari
mikuus[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Mikko Uusi-Oukari

Antibodies, Assay development, Basic research, Drug target, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Medicinal chemistry, Molecular modelling, Natural products, Neurological disorders, Organic compounds, Pharmacology, Polymorph analysis, Receptor, Signaling, Synthetic chemistry, Target discovery

Picture of Jukka Westermarck

Research Group:
Cancer Cell Signaling

Jukka Westermarck
jukwes[at]utu.fi

Turku Bioscience Centre and Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Jukka Westermarck

Cancer Cell Signaling

Assay development, Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Data mining, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug delivery, Genomics, Lung cancer, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Nanoparticles, Next-generation sequencing, Pathology, Personalized medicine, Prostate cancer, Proteomics, Receptor, Screening, Signaling, Squamous cell carcinoma, Systems Biology, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography

Research Group:
Signaling of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Cancer and Development

Klaus Elenius
klaele[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Klaus Elenius

Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Data mining, Diagnostics, Drug delivery, Drug target, Genomics, Lung cancer, Melanoma, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular modelling, Next-generation sequencing, Pathology, Personalized medicine, Receptor, Signaling, Squamous cell carcinoma, Target discovery

Research Group:
Glycolipids and glycoproteins as cell adhesion receptors

Sauli Haataja
sauli.haataja[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Sauli Haataja

Antibacterial, Antibodies, Assay development, Bacteriology, Basic research, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Biomolecular chemistry, Biopharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Cancer, Electron microscopy, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular modelling, Nanoparticles, Natural Compounds, Natural products, Next-generation sequencing, Proteomics, Receptor, Screening, Signaling, Structural Biology, Synthetic chemistry, Systems Biology, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography

Research Group:
Brown and white adipose tissue function in humans

Kirsi Virtanen
kirsi.virtanen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Clinical Medicine,
University of Turku

Kirsi Virtanen

Basic research, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Metabolic diseases, PET, Physiology

Research Group:
Bone and energy metabolism

Kaisa Ivaska
kaisa.ivaska[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Kaisa Ivaska

Ageing-related diseases, Assay development, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Diabetes, In Vitro Diagnostics, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Cell Biology, Musculoskeletal disorders, Obesity